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Mountaineering Moments #15 . . . Katlego Letheo
Mountaineers need to be steadfast and determined, knowing that big goals are multi-year commitments. Katlego appreciates this better than...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20203 min read


Mountaineering Moments #14 . . . Billi Bierling
Billi parked her bicycle outside my Kathmandu hotel and we crammed into a waiting taxi and headed off into the bumpy frenetic streets of...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #13 . . . Remy Kloos
It’s hard not to miss the sunflower that accompanies Remy on her expeditions and summits! Part of an exciting wave of upcoming...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #12 . . . Chris Sherpa
It was a Jan 2018 weekend away in Sydney. I’d enjoyed a sunny north shore hike and then hurriedly made it into the CBD for “a talk by a...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #11 . . . Saray Khumalo
Saray and I were on Everest at the same time before we actually met. It was 2014. Saray was on the South (Nepalese) side; I was on the...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #10 . . . Charlene Milner
Last year I assisted with Saray Khumalo’s Summits with a Purpose initiative. In February 2019 the team hosted a celebration of...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #9 . . . Squash Falconer
Leading up to my first Himalayan trip in 2011 I started following a few of the female Everest climbers (considerably fewer around 9 years...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20203 min read


Mountaineering Moments #8 . . . Dawa Yangzum Sherpa
It had been a dream of mine to see the Himalaya’s with my own eyes. This took until 2011 to achieve, as Peru/Bolivia had been my...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20203 min read


Mountaineering Moments #7 . . . Nicky Booyens
Nicky says she isn’t a “big ass mountaineer” but for those in the know; Nix/Turbo-Mamba is one enthusiastic & successful adventurer! She...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #6 . . . Terra Roam
One windy Saturday in late 2019 I visited an outdoor expo in Melbourne. It was small and suburban. I had taken 4 minutes to scan the room...
Jeannette McGill
Jul 5, 20203 min read


Mountaineering Moments #5 . . . Jessica Hepburn
Jessica has swum the English Channel and run the London Marathon to raise awareness for fertility.Now her sights are firmly set on Everest.
Jeannette McGill
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #4 . . . Cassie Davies
▶️ Cassie is one of the people that I’m happy to have met that lives and breathes the outdoors from all it’s glorious angles. After my...
Jeannette McGill
Jun 23, 20201 min read


Mountaineering Moments - #3 . . . Sunny Stroeer
Her passion and speciality is high altitude endurance; she holds FKT speed records on Aconcagua, China’s TransQuilian and the Annapurna Circ
Jeannette McGill
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments - #2 . . . Siv Harstad
▶️ In 2016 I was volunteering a few weeks of my time working in a tea-house in the Khumbu Valley, Nepal. Siv was passing through on her...
Jeannette McGill
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Mountaineering Moments #1 . . . Mandy Ramsden
2020 will mark 10 years since Mandy summitted Everest – becoming only the second South African woman to do so as well as the very first Sout
Jeannette McGill
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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